The Catalan regional Audit Office reports that TV3, the Catalan state broadcaster, has been awarding contracts

without complying with ‘the principles of openness, competition, transparency, confidentiality, equality and non-discrimination’, and without ensuring their allocation ‘to the most economically advantageous tender.’

I never expected to blog a case of translators being overpaid, but that will have been the …

Föcked Translation (413): I posted to a light-hearted blog called Fucked Translation over on Blogger from 2007 to 2016, when I was often in Barcelona. Its original subtitle was "What happens when Spanish institutions and businesses give translation contracts to relatives or to some guy in a bar who once went to London and only charges 0.05€/word." I never actually did much Spanish-English translation (most of my work is from Dutch, French and German) but I was intrigued and amused by the hubristic Spanish belief, then common, that nepotism and quality went hand in hand, and by the nemeses that inevitably followed.